40

To celebrate our year of turning 40, a few of my high school friends spent a day at the beach together.  It was so fun to hang out and catch up and laugh about being the 'old ladies' on the beach.  Such a special today together!!

Picture Perfect

Cousin time!

Buddies

Track and Field Day

 One of our favorite activities of the year is our annual track and field day.  This was Morgan's last year and Josiah's first year.  So fun to spend the day together.

So proud of my G.  She hammered out an 8:30 mile.  She hasn't even been practicing!

I adore these sweet moments...

Josiah's favorite activity was the "tiger war".  I'm so sad that Greta insisted on correcting him.  

He was not happy about having to wear this apron.

Ramp

Out of the Mouths

Tonight at supper Josiah didn't want to finish his meal so I gave him a small portion and told him that's what he needed to finish and he could be done.  When I wasn't looking he scraped his plate of undesirable food into the trash can.  I told him that his consequence was no more snacks the rest of the night.

Later in the evening the kids were having some ice cream.  Jojo was pretty distraught that he wasn't getting any.  He kept crying that he was the "worstest brother in the family" because he wasn't getting any dessert.  I took him inside and tried to explain to him that he is not the worstest brother...that he needed to say sorry to Mommy and sorry to God and he would get forgiveness.  To which he responded:

"But that doesn't mean I get dessert!"

Me: "No, but you get forgiven."

Jo: "But forgiven isn't a dessert!!!"

Hiking

This totally cracks me up.  The spitting water was completely unscripted, they both just did it at the same time.  They really do travel on the same wavelength...

He is SUCH a good big brother.